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td on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: German data protection authority puts fine on FB l...

Just to remark that this seems to only apply to the state of Schleswig-Holstein, or, according to Wikipedia, 2.8 million of ~80 million Germans.

_snsh on Aug 19, 2011 [–]

It's the only state with an agency trying to enforce it right now.

The applicable laws are federal laws.

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